Sermon Tone Analysis

The New Self Puts On Jesus

Colossians 3:12-17

Hopewell Baptist Church

May 8, 2022

Opening Illustration

Transition

Big Idea – The Only Way to Focus on Christ and Be Killing Sin is to Put on Christ Daily

Colossians 3:12–17 (ESV)

12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body.

And be thankful.

16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

This is the Word of the Lord our God.

Let us pray.

The New Self Puts On Jesus

I. Put on Jesus – Colossians 3:12-14

a.

Put on – literally means to get dressed, or to dress oneself.

i.

What are we to put on?

ii.

Characteristics of Jesus

1. Compassion – aware/purposeful sympathy -v.12

2. Kindness – warmhearted goodness -v.12

3. Humility – valuing oneself appropriately -v.12

4. Meekness – gentleness – v.12

5. Patience – forbearance -v.12

6. Forbearance – enduring -v.13

7. Forgiveness – Forgiving – v.13

8. Love – Agape, unconditional love – v.14

iii.

If you are not doing this daily, putting on Christ, and it’s not reflecting in your daily lives how do you call yourself a Christian?

iv.

If you do these things only for going to church, are you really a Christian?

b.